Goodbye Soldier by Spike Milligan
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Goodbye Soldier
- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
About this listen
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Goodbye Soldier, written and read by Spike Milligan.
“My name is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni.”
“I’m Spike, sometimes known as ‘stop thief’ or ‘hey you.'”
“Yeser, I know.”
The sixth volume of Spike Milligan’s off-the-wall account of his part in World War Two sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it’s 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio – a ‘Combined Services Entertainment’ inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria – and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana (“Arghhhhhhhhh!”). But he must enjoy it while he can before he is demobbed and sent home to Catford – so he does….
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